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Thornhill wants to settle the matter at once, losses on the turf, you understand; an immediate purchaser would get still better terms. A Sir John Spratt would give the money; but the addition of these lands would make the Spratt property of more consequence in the county than the Thornhill. So my client would rather take a few thousands less from a man who don't set up to be his rival.
Kendrick drew up chairs for himself and Magee, and they sat down. Behind them the bulky Mrs. Norton dozed, dreaming perhaps of her Reuton boarding-house, while Miss Thornhill and the professor talked intermittently in low tones. The ranks at Baldpate were thinning rapidly; before long the place must settle back with a sigh in the cold, to wait for its first summer girl. "Mr.
It is not the infatuation of the moment, Professor. Say rather that of a lifetime." "Ah, yes," the old man returned. "Youth how sure it always is of that. I do not deprecate the feeling. Once, long ago, I, too, had youth and faith. We will not dwell on that, however. Miss Thornhill assures me that Henry Bentley, the son of my friend John Bentley, esteems you highly.
I did not take some business which Marion did on Terriss's suggestion. Where Thornhill tells Olivia that she is not his wife, I used to thrust him away with both hands as I said "Devil!" "It's very good, Nell, very fine," said Terriss to me, "but believe me, you miss a great effect there. You play it grandly, of course, but at that moment you miss it.
"The only way to my heart is by the road of honour; but here I only see complicated instances of falsehood, cowardice, and oppression." At this moment Jenkinson and the gaoler's two servants entered, hauling in a tall man very genteelly dressed. As soon as Mr. Thornhill perceived the prisoner and Mr.
Thornhill, I shall with pleasure answer you any question you may choose to ask me if you will answer me one question first. The doctor seemed surprised, but he smiled and answered at once, 'Done! What is it? 'Did Mrs. Witham ask you to come here and see me and advise me? Dr. Thornhill for a moment was taken aback, and Mrs.
I can have my machine here in a minute. No?" as Worth declined with a wordless shake of the head. I hoped he'd leave then; but he didn't. Instead, he turned back to his chair, explaining, "If Mrs. Thornhill's cook hadn't phoned me, when Mrs. Thornhill had a second collapse last night, I suppose I should be in San Francisco still.
Sir James Thornhill had been forgiving, kind, and generous after a time two years and opened to the runaway lovers his heart and his purse. But there was little to show for all that now. There hung on the walls various works by the dead hand. Portraits of the Miss Hogarths, the painter's sisters; they had kept a ready-made clothes shop at Little Britain gate. Portraits of the daughter of Mr.
He agreed at once, silently, but thankfully I thought. Barbara, listening, proposed half timidly to go with us, staying the night at the Thornhill place, being brought back before work time Monday, and was accepted simply.
She looked helplessly up at him; he smiled down into her tense, suffering face, and paid no attention to her objections. As soon as he carried her off, Jim Edwards glumly took out that one of the twins I had at first supposed to be the elder, the remaining Thornhill girls moved on Dr. Bowman and began nagging him to hunt partners for them.
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